funny, how i've lived in this body for 41 years and somehow JUST discovered today i'm 2 stars shy of having the big dipper on my belly. i feel like an infant who's just discovered her fingers and toes.....or a person who just noticed the face of jesus on her morning toast.

you're a star-bellied sneetch!remember my cat Sheba, the one who screamed on my answering machine? i used to call her my star-bellied sneetch and sneetchy, 'cause she had a white star on her belly.hee hee. -rh stl my brain hurtzz

BAH-HAHAHAHAyou made me laugh WAY out loud remembering that sneetchy phone message!!!!!! that kitty had some serious pipes alright....i should put jozee's snorin' self on a phone message one day. we can hear it clear across the house sometimes, that crazy nasally pooch!

Did I tell you how I ass-i-dentally deleted Sheba's plaintive cries from my machine? Stupid Daylight Saving time--I was trying to change the time on the machine, wasn't wearing my eyeballs & dumbass me, deleted her. I was sooooo freaking sad.

Soz, ya knowz what I did? Jake & Anna spent the night a few days afterward & I 'splained my whole Sheba-not-on-answ. machine-story to them & then commanded them to meow (oh children, so agreeable! so humorous!) and lo & behold, my outgoing message sounds just like Sheba did. It fools everyone--my mom, the vet (yes, the vet), the auto mechanics, my oldest friend, my cousin... hee hee.